A 19-year-old man once dubbed one of Wilmington's "most dangerous individuals" will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the gang killing of two men.

John Brisco, a member of the Touch Money Gang, received two life in prison sentences on Friday for the shooting deaths of 18-year-old William Rollins Jr. in 2015 and 53-year-old Ioannis Kostikidis two years earlier.

Brisco, who went by the name "Bin Laden," was the first of three Touch Money Gang members to be sentenced on Friday for killings they committed.

"You've done nothing, absolutely nothing, to make yourself a better person," Superior Court Judge William C. Carpenter Jr. told Brisco before sentencing him. In addition to the life sentences, Carpenter added 35 years of imprisonment for other crimes, including weapons charges and gang participation.

At the Friday sentencing, Deputy Attorney General John Downs explained that Brisco claimed his rap nickname, Bin Laden, was given to him because of the way he could "terrorize a beat."

The only thing Brisco terrorized was the community, Downs said.

Brisco rejected a plea deal that would have put him in prison for a minimum of 41 years and instead faced a jury that found him guilty of the killings in March. Brisco had been charged with killing a third person, 20-year-old Devon Lindsey, but the jury found him not guilty of that killing.

He is the only defendant who has proceeded to trial so far. Two other Touch Money Gang members have pending cases.

On Friday, the courtroom was packed with friends and family members of several Touch Money Gang members and their victims.

"Please do not allow this man – this coward – to walk the streets again," said Shareece White, mother of Rollins who was shot dead on Jan. 24, 2015, near West 21st and Washington streets – one week after Lindsey was killed.

Brisco also shot and killed Kostikidis, a security guard at the American Beauty School, during a robbery attempt at Sixth and Tatnall streets on Feb. 6, 2013.

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Wilmington and state officials announce the indictment of 13 Touch Money Gang members on 91 charges including murder, robbery, conspiracy and weapons charges.

In 2015, Brisco was named in the Touch Money Gang indictment, which grew to 13 defendants.

Other defendants have taken pleas, including 18-year-old Daymere Wisher and 17-year-old Raymire Briscoe, who were both sentenced on Friday.

Wisher pleaded guilty in February to the second-degree murder of 32-year-old Jason Turner on June 21, 2014, as well as Kostikidis' manslaughter. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Briscoe, who pleaded guilty to the May 8, 2014, manslaughter of 29-year-old Dwayne Brown, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Briscoe, who was was 14 when he killed Brown, was the only gang member sentenced on Friday who publicly accepted responsibility for his actions, according to a statement read on his behalf.